AL Direct, December 3, 2008 Contents U.S. & World News ALA News Booklist Online Denver Update Division News Round Table News Awards Seen Online Tech Talk The e-newsletter of the American Library Association | December 3, 2008 Publishing Actions & Answers Calendar U.S. & World News Antipiracy statute challenged Harvard Law School Professor Charles Nesson (right) has taken on the defense of a 24-year-old Boston University graduate student who is challenging the constitutionality of a lawsuit filed against him by the Recording Industry Association of America. The suit seeks thousands of dollars in damages for the ALA Midwinter Meeting, student’s alleged sharing of digitized music on a peer- Denver, January 23–28. to-peer network, and comes as colleges and universities are Want to add a workshop grappling with digital copyright enforcement regulations. The or institute to your outcome could help clarify what restrictions libraries face in how they Midwinter Registration? share and distribute digital media.... Several divisions are American Libraries Online, Dec. 3 offering some unique programs (PDF file). It’s easy! There are two ways: 1. By phone: Call ALA Registration at 1-800- 974-3084 and ask to add a workshop to your ALA News existing registration. 2. Online: Add an event Oprah sends her regrets to your existing registration by clicking on American Libraries Editor Leonard Kniffel writes: “The inside scoop on the online registration Oprah Winfrey is that she has already declined our invitation to form. Use your login and speak at ALA Annual Conference next summer. Last April, a group of password to access your us at ALA Headquarters pounced on the idea that it just had to be existing Midwinter Oprah for the 2009 conference in Chicago. But last week, I got the registration and add call I didn’t want to get—from an Oprah assistant, letting me know events in the “Your that she would be unable to appear. Meanwhile, wait till you hear Events” section (screen who we’re after instead.”... 6). Then simply check out AL Inside Scoop, Dec. 1 and pay for the events Obama concerned over library closures you’ve added. ALA applauds President-elect Barack Obama for recognizing, during a December 2 address to the National Governors Association, the effect that library closings have on communities. Obama, discussing potential budget shortfalls for the 41 states represented during the http://aldirect.ala.org/sites/default/al_direct/2008/december/120308.htm[7/17/2014 1:47:40 PM] AL Direct, December 3, 2008 meeting, cited library closures as one of the drastic measures already being taken to balance state budgets. Read American Libraries Editor Leonard Kniffel’s open letter to Obama on the value of libraries to the country.... District Dispatch, Dec. 2; Associated Press, Dec. 2; AL Inside Scoop, Dec. 3 ALA’s perspective on federal policies ALA Washington Office Executive The Tale of Director Emily Sheketoff talked to guest Despereaux, Kate host Paul Sweeting November 6 about DiCamillo’s Newbery ALA’s positions on federal copyright, Award–winning classic privacy, and piracy policy. She also about a mouse in love discussed how those issues could be with adventure, books, affected by President-elect Barack Obama’s administration. The and a princess named Communicators is C-SPAN’s weekly series that examines the people Pea, has enchanted and events currently shaping telecommunications policy.... readers around the C-SPAN Video Library globe. Now you can Submit questions to ALA presidential candidates highlight your collection with this via YouTube charming poster and Do you have a question you’re dying to ask the candidates for ALA bookmark featuring a president? If you can’t attend the Presidential Candidates’ Forum at special color the Midwinter Meeting in Denver, why not submit a question on illustration by Timothy YouTube? It’s fun, it’s easy, it’s the new ALA way. Submissions will Basil Ering. The be accepted from December 8 through January 16, must be tagged beloved tale has as ALAelection09, and must be no longer than 90 seconds.... inpsired a highly anticipated animated YA author to headline FTRF adventure from fundraiser in Denver Universal Pictures, Lauren Myracle, whose book ttyl was one of the which arrives in 10 most frequently challenged books of 2007, will theaters December 19. be the featured speaker at the fourth annual NEW! From ALA Freedom to Read Foundation fundraising author event at the ALA Graphics. Midwinter Meeting, January 25, in Denver. The event will take place at the Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th Street, and will be cosponsored by the bookstore and the Friends of the Denver Public Library. Visit the Friends site to purchase a ticket in advance... In this issue December 2008 AL Library Design Showcase: Call for submissions American Libraries Associate Editor Greg Landgraf writes: “American Libraries is now accepting submissions for its annual Library Design Showcase, to be published in the April 2009 issue. To be considered, send a completed submission form (PDF file), along with color photos, 35mm slides, or high- resolution digital images, by snail mail, by February 1. Projects must have been completed after October 1, 2007.”... AL Inside Scoop, Dec. 1 Successful conclusion to Cultural Laura Bush, Communities campaign Librarian in the The Public Programs Office has successfully White House completed an ambitious campaign to raise matching funds for the Cultural Communities Fund, in response to a Top Stories of 2008 http://aldirect.ala.org/sites/default/al_direct/2008/december/120308.htm[7/17/2014 1:47:40 PM] AL Direct, December 3, 2008 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. More than 450 individual and corporate supporters donated more The World’s than $332,000, bringing the campaign total to $1.4 million, the Greatest Music largest fundraising effort in ALA history.... Library User Tagging Featured review: Media Auch, Mary Jane. One-Handed Catch. Read by Ryan Sparkes. Sept. 2008. 6hr. Full Cast, CD. Grades 4–8 (978- 1-934180-16-7). On July 4, 1946, 11-year-old Norm loses his left hand in a meat-grinder accident in his father’s butcher shop Going to the PLA Spring and must relearn how to do things Symposium in Nashville, one-handed, including tying his shoes and riding a bike. April 2–4? Here are some Wracked with guilt, Norm’s father struggles to come to terms special events to make with the accident, while the adolescent’s no-nonsense mother plans for. pushes her son and everyone to treat him as if nothing has changed. Before the accident, Norm dreamed of becoming a baseball player. When his doctor gives him a newspaper Career Leads clipping of a one-handed major league pitcher, Norm is from inspired to figure out how he, too, can play baseball with just one hand. What follows is an uplifting, motivating tale. The Full Cast team of readers energizes this historical fiction with superior narration.... Library Director, White County Regional New Booklist blog: Library System, Searcy, Audiobooker Arkansas. Progressive, Booklist Online announces a new fast-growing White addition to its growing family of blogs: Audiobooker, by County, Arkansas, is teacher, school librarian, and certified audiobook addict Mary seeking an energetic, Burkey. Burkey’s blog, launched independently a year ago, has experienced public already won loyal readers with listening notes, teaching library system director resources, classroom examples, and what she describes as an to oversee and assist “online scrapbook of audiobook minutia, digital literature with planning all phases ramblings, and random ridiculous addendums.” Her passions of library services for include getting the right audiobook into the right hands and seven branches with 15 championing young people’s right to read with their ears.... FTEs. Will work with a 13-member regional @ Visit Booklist Online for other reviews and much more.... board and 5-member county board; will be responsible for budget preparation and represent the library to Denver Update the public and governmental agencies.... How to find your way around any new city Shana Glickfield writes: “Adding an extra day to [ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver]? Whether you want to hit the local hotspots or @ More jobs... knock those tourist must-sees off your list, these online and mobile tools are surefire secret weapons. To take in a city like a tourist without looking like a tourist, count on podcasts or downloadable Digital Library audio walking tours to be your guide. For finding the best food in the http://aldirect.ala.org/sites/default/al_direct/2008/december/120308.htm[7/17/2014 1:47:40 PM] AL Direct, December 3, 2008 city, use mobile apps like Zagat or Urbanspoon. Twitter is also a good of the Week way to find company if you are traveling solo.”... Mashable, Nov. 28 Extreme Ice at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science Photographer James Balog documents global warming in the icefields and glaciers of some of the most extreme and remote environments on Earth. “Extreme Ice: Evidence of Global Warming Now”— spectacular videos and photographs from the most wide-ranging glacial study ever The University of conducted using ground-based and time-lapse photography—will be Virginia Art Museum on exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 2001 Numismatic Collection Colorado Boulevard, through March 8.... contains nearly 600 Denver Museum of Nature and Science coins of Greek and Roman origin. 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